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Georgia Tech's has installed two high-performance supercomputing clusters for projects requiring an exceptional amount of processing power.

The clusters, made up of 64 and 128 Dell PowerEdge 1850 servers - one in the College of Computing and the other in Aerospace Engineering - can be joined to create a 192-node supercomputing cluster capable of processing a theoretical maximum of 2.5 trillion floating point operations per second.

"Industry-standard processors and novel distributed architectures are key to our supercomputing strategy," said Rich DeMillo, dean of Computing. "The clusters we have installed will enable new scientific discoveries that would have been impossible only five years ago."

The innovative supercomputing platform uses networking technologies from Cisco Systems.

Researchers plan to use the systems to study complex problems, including the simulation of aircraft designs and the design of future computer chips.

Researchers also plan to use the system to leverage its multi-scale modeling expertise and build upon federal and state transportation data to discover cost-effective ways to address the considerable traffic problems of major metropolitan areas.

"As a national leader in computing research and education, the College of Computing's groundbreaking achievements in multi-scale modeling has led to safety and efficiency improvements for homes, buildings and even traveling," DeMillo said.